THERE’S something inspiring about how people respond to life’s challenges and it’s particularly moving if the person who responds is a child. Billy Elliot and
The horrors of war are reflected in the eyes of children who see friends and relatives killed. Brazzaville “My aunt cried, but I never did.”
Nigerians wave from the top of a truck during a ceremony by the governor of the country’s most populous northern state of Kano, in which
Jane Davidson, an author, freelance journalist and communications consultant, has been hired as full-time staff writer for the Anglican Journal. Ms. Davidson is also a
Next summer the General Synod of the Church of Australia will debate a new canon, which could remove all legal obstacles to the consecration of
THE SPECIAL Olympics have been part of the North American landscape for more than 30 years. For more than a decade, the achievements of the
The Latin Patriarch in the Holy Land has called on Israel to stop its troops firing at an Arab Christian village and to surrender all
100 years ago: December 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that it is comforting in these days to find that just as hard things were said of
The controversial Vatican document, Dominus Iesus, has strengthened the ecumenical commitment of many German Catholics, according to Maria Jepsen, the Lutheran bishop of Hamburg in
It’s a gift for the first 50 customers today,” said the person at the drug store checkout to me after I had made a purchase
THE PROFILE OF the ‘average’ theological student has changed dramatically in recent years. Colleges and universities report an influx of older students, many beginning a
HOUSED IN A building named after the founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and using liberation theology as a jumping-off point, the principal of the
In the wake of a Vatican document that argued the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church, Pope John Paul told participants in a
Anglican bishops in southern Africa have agreed to undergo voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and to encourage clergy and lay leaders of their diocese to be tested
A different interpretation of the same data suggests conflicting conclusions about the quality of dental care Native children received at school. AFTER READING Ottawa Experimented
Two Anglican parishes in Burnaby, B.C., are considering joining with two Lutheran and two United churches to build a large Christian centre which would serve
100 years ago: November 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries went through a stage of profound irreverence. Courtiers, ecclesiastics,
The Church of England is considering installing cash machines in thousands of rural churches. Senior officials want to exploit the vacuum left by the closure
Thomas Gibson stars with Jessica Pare in Denys Arcand’s Stardom. WHEN DENYS Arcand introduced his film Stardom to the audience at the Vancouver International Film
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